Vray 3.0 Network Render Problems

[sebbiej]

Hi there,

Sorry to post another thread on the forum for this issue, but we can't seem to get Vray 3 working over our network...

We've installed Vray 3 on my PC (which will be running Maya 2015). Then we have installed the standalone on a couple of our network machines, and on a brand new render server (which runs Windows Server 12).

In the Distributed Rendering window, I've put in the IP addresses of the server and the PC, and it issues them port 20207. Is this correct?

When I hit render, the dialogue says:
[2015/Feb/6|11:21:11] V-Ray warning: Could not connect to host **.*.**.**:20207: Connection timeout
[2015/Feb/6|11:21:11] V-Ray warning: Could not use any of the selected (1) hosts for distributed rendering!

If I type in my browser http://localhost:30304/getstatus I can see my licence information correctly, but if I do this on one of the slaves, no web page appears.

I've opened up ports 20207, and 30304 on all the computer's firewalls... still nothing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

[tashko.zashev]

Hi,

Could you try to ping one of your render slave machines?
Also in order to verify that you can access V-Ray slave running on the render node machine. Please open command prompt on the machine you are submitting the job from and enter :

telnet IP 20207

where IP address is the IP address or the render slave machine. For example if V-Ray slave is running on machine with IP addess 192.168.1.15

you should enter:
telnet 192.168.1.15 20207
and let us know the result. If you are not able to connect, please check if there is a firewall blocking the connection.

Please confirm that you have started V-Ray render slave on all render slave machines?
In V-Ray Standalone application window, you can add the following command : vray -server
or start "Launch V-Ray render slave"

If I type in my browser http://localhost:30304/getstatus I can see my licence information correctly, but if I do this on one of the slaves, no web page appears

When you try to access the V-Ray license server from another machine, please make sure that instead of "localhost" you use the IP of the machine where the dongle is and license server is running.

[sebbiej]

Hi Tashko,

Thank you very much for your quick response.

We've managed to sort the problem out, the firewall port 20207 wasn't opened up on one of the machines, and I when installing the standalone it was pointing to the wrong machine with the dongle in it! It was bound to be something simple.. doh!

Also just got to say, I'm loving Vray 3! It's a great upgrade . And seeing it working with 106 cores is pretty sweet!

[tashko.zashev]

That's great, I'm glad to hear that you've sorted it out and thank you for the positive feedback.